We're going to hear what they say happened...from HIM

[malaise]

WTF CNN? No - you are repeating hearsay. We don't care what friends of Wilson have to say and you are not hearing from him.

Demand the official report - why is all the narrative you folks are pushing on the side of the cop who executed an unarmed teenager.

CNN - always wrong and proud of it.

[FarPoint]

1. I turned the channel at the commercial.

I sense where they are going and can not stomach it.

[boston bean]

2. That is pissing me off. An anonymous caller into a radio show

speaks for Wilson and the media runs with it.

Demand the initial police incident reports which should have been made public way before now. And demand the full footage of the video store incident.

Those videos were obviously snippets of the event and are not the entire event.

What a bunch of lazy asses they are.

Something is very wrong here with the police not releasing what is public record and manipulating video to not show the entire event.

[malaise]

4. It's the same as taking something unsourced off an MB and presenting it as a fact

An unnamed woman calls a radio station and says she is Wilson's friend and this is what happened. I mean WTF!!! Why are they doing this?

[JaneyVee]

3. 3rd hand witness accounts not permitted in court,

Yet CNN runs with it. Eyewitness accounts permitted in court yet CNN calls eyewitness accounts "unreliable" because they are "traumatized". You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows at CNN.

[ReRe]

5. Awwww...

...

[wandy]

6. CNN didn't just report hearsay, they reported the party line............

What CNN broth forth was a well scripted document written by a friend(s) and given to a RW outlet(s).
Many a friend(s) used almost the exact same wording and precise use of the same dog whistles and key words.
This was the narrative the haters were waiting for and thanks to a friend(s) "disclosure" they were given the crap distortion that makes the truth almost irrelevant.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025400792

It was only a matter of time before corporate media like CNN would pick it up and run with it.

[MoonRiver]

7. It wasn't even a second hand report.

That caller heard the story from Wilson's girlfriend. This is NEWS?

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. posted to for later.

[BobbyBoring]

9. I'm sorry

But I can't imagine a "friend" of Wilsons would live in that hood and be a witness. I doubt he has many black friends.

[think_in_code]

10. The whole premise doesn't make sense

These folks are essentially arguing that Michael Brown had a death wish. They are basically saying that he was so angry at the cop that he chose to put his head down as if he were a bull and charge a police officer who was shooting at him. Who does that? Who in their right mind would charge somebody who is shooting at them. That goes against human nature. In addition, all of the shots were close together on the right side of his body. If somebody is charging at somebody and was shot in the process wouldn't there at least be some chest wounds. Also, what ever happened to a taser. All police officers carry them so if Brown was charging him why not use that instead of a gun. Lastly, why has the cop not released any sort of statement backing up his claim and why have the police not released the incident report. If the case was so cut and dry we would not be using a random radio show call in as evidence of anything.

[ljm2002]

11. Agree with what you say...

...and not only "Who does that?" but there is the fact that at least 4 eyewitnesses say he was surrendering when the final barrage of bullets flew and killed him. Also: he was charging like a bull after being shot in the eye? Reeeaaallllly??? How stupid do they think we are? (never mind, I already know the answer -- they think our minds and opinions are infinitely malleable to their manipulation of the truth)

And Welcome to DU!

[gollygee]

12. There are four eye witnesses

who independently have the same story, whose names we know. Then there's an anonymous call by someone claiming to be a friend of Wilson, which would make her biased even if she's telling the truth about who she is, and she's telling the version of events from the person who could be arrested over the event.

Who is more reliable as a witness in the US? Whose story are people seeming to find more believable? I am really troubled by the answers to those questions.

[Octafish]

13. Where IS that report?

They've had enough time to edit.

[malaise]

14. Precisely

THey've had ten days to create their own narrative

[Octafish]

15. Enough scenarios have been created over those 10 days...

...to let them pick and chose the very best and most plausible of story elements from which to generate their own narrative, coincidentally in the process, proving their own innocence.